Printing error affects about 14,000 mail-in ballots, says Lancaster County elections board Updated May 18, 2021; A printing error is affecting the counting of an estimated 14,000 mail-in ballots in Lancaster County, county elections officials said. While opening mailed-in ballots Tuesday during the pre-canvass process, workers noticed that the ballots containing multiple sheets — needed in some cases to list all the candidates and the ballot questions — had been printed in the wrong order by the ballot vendor, Michigan Election Resources. A news release from the county Board of Elections said pages 1 and 3 were mistakenly printed on the front and back of the same sheet, as were pages 2 and 4. If read in sequence, the board said, the pages would read 1,3,2 and 4.